Modern Feudalism is Destroying Free Markets
Modern day feudalism is being forced upon the American people, and for the most part, we have been fooled into thinking that it is good for us, when in fact, it is destroying the free markets.
View ArticleWisconsin Veterans Benefit from Conservative Policies
When Scott Walker was inaugurated on January 3, 2011 as Wisconsin’s 45th Governor, he inherited a multitude of problems. Perhaps the biggest challenge he faced was a projected budget deficit of $3.6...
View ArticleSubprime Blame? Or Not Enough?
Here we are, five years after the financial meltdown of the subprime mortgage crisis, and finally, one of the leading culprits is being threatened with legal liability for its part in the crisis. There...
View ArticleCrisis In Cyprus – This Is How Wars Start
The last-minute deal closes the second largest bank in Cyprus permanently, and imposes upwards of forty percent losses on uninsured deposits over one-hundred thousand Euros. There is more to this deal...
View ArticleDow Climbs: Is It Time To Turn The Page?
It was bound to happen. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) had once again broken a record, posting its highest closing price in history.
View ArticleObama’s Sequestration Strategy –“I Hope They’re As Stupid As We Think”
Whatever actually happens with sequestration, it has revealed a deceptive, mean spirited set of actions from the Obama administration, and the president himself—in the tone and words of his speeches.
View ArticleUS Trade Partners Drop Dollar Intermediation
By removing the USD intermediation, US trade partners such as Australia, will be able to cut one layer of cost involved in converting currency.
View ArticleBiden: ‘We Have To Create A New World Order’
Vice-President Joe Biden commented at the Export-Import Bank Conference on Wednesday that "we have to create a new world order." He also comments that the U.S. job numbers are "disappointing." What is...
View ArticleUnregulated Bitcoin Mining – The Good, Bad, and the Ugly
So what does this mean for global finance? Well, both sides of the aisle are embracing Bitcoin.
View ArticleCan The Cyprus Bail-In Method Spread To The U.S.?
Could a Cyprus Bail-in type of situation happen here in the United States? Imagine not being able to withdraw any money from your account for 12 days? Or if your bank, like the Bank of Cyprus, froze...
View ArticleHow Raising the Minimum Wage Lowers Everyone’s Standard Of Living
Recently, many states have begun to adopt minimum wage increases as a method of providing a better living wage to the American people. Unfortunately, raising the minimum wage will have the opposite...
View ArticleObama’s Budget: Not So Serious In A Juvenile Way
When you are president of the United States with a legal obligation to submit a budget and you decided to do that two months late, it shows incompetence, or a complete disdain for the citizens you...
View ArticleHave You Even Heard of CNG?
I recently attended a presentation by the Lott Oil Co. describing the current status of the product that will be the keystone of natural gas used in vehicles. That is Compressed Natural Gas – CNG. Get...
View ArticleAmerica’s Education System: Producing the Financially Illiterate
One by-product of our nanny state and the ineffective education system is that people have no incentive to learn about financial issues.
View ArticleNorth Carolina Is 15th State To Support Reinstating Glass-Steagall
American philosopher, George Santayana wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." We need to remember the past before there was a Glass-Steagall Act.
View ArticleDeregulation And America’s Architects of Destruction
In fact it was not deregulation; rather it was caused by government manipulation of the mortgage banking and housing industry by the Clinton administration using the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to...
View ArticleThe Enigma of Ethanol: How it All Started
There were a myriad of analyses on the cost of producing ethanol that were divided between those who favored it finding lower costs and those not in favor finding higher costs.
View ArticleThe Enigma of Ethanol: Are Mandates On Fuel Standards Real?
We left off with legislation mandating Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) and the EPA administering them.
View ArticleThe Enigma of Ethanol: The Time For Action Is Now
We last ended with the Renewable Fuel Standard moving toward an increase in its mandate for ethanol in gasoline up to 15% (E-15) for 2013.
View ArticleThe Federal Reserve and Parasitic Capitalism
The blood-flow of a free society is considered criminal under socialism because it is free from the control of parasitic capitalism.
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